10/20 and Opening Up Preflop from UTG & UTG+1

[NLSoldier]

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You know I really don't know why people want to play terrible hands from EP in the 10/20 where 3-betting is common and imo it's unlikely the gap between your postflop skills and that of your oposition is great enough to compensate for being oop.


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I think the thing is that people actually tend to give a little credit to early raises, and fold some hands that they would bet 3betting with had your raise come from CO or button. Also, when you get it HU with a blind, he generally wont be defending as aggressively postlop as he would had your raise been a more obvious steal.